Die Praxis der Naturgeschichte : ein vollständiges Lehrbuch über das Sammeln lebender und todter Naturkörper; deren Beobachtung, Erhaltung und Pflege im freien und gefangenen Zustand; Konservation, Präparation und Aufstellung in Sammlungen etc.

by: Martin, Philipp Leopold, 1815-1885; Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978, former owner. DSI

Publication date: 1876

Topics: Taxidermy, Natural history, Zoos, Botanical gardens

Publisher: Weimar : Bernhard Friedrich Voigt

Collection: biodiversity; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: German

Volume: Th.1 (1876)

Each part has added t.p

Some of the plates signed L. Martin and C. Knittel, litho

"Literatur": Th. 1, p. [201]-207

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SCNHRB copy (39088013488176) lacking Th. 2 & 3 and accompanying atlas of plates. Ten atlas plates to Th. 1 folded and bound-in with text

SCNHRB copy has occasional pencilled ms. corrections to text. Plates not bound sequentially. Unidentified ink inscription and pencilled drawing on pl. III and original back endpapers. German newspaper clipping on back paste-down

SCNHRB copy has bookplate of Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Alexander Wetmore. Inscribed in ink on front free endpaper: A. Wetmore

SCNHRB copy bound in black library buckram, title in gilt on spine